Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abolishing the draft in favor of a volunteer army. "I interpreted that at first to be the end of everybody being equally responsible for the country's welfare," says David. "I mean, you hear a lot of guys talking about how they are being excluded from the political process and on the other hand saying that it is in the national interest, as they have defined it, for them not to be drafted...
...moves through the upper echelons of Moscow; his fears alternate with moments of euphoric hope, counterpointing the luxurious world around him. Seized and taken to Lyubyanka, in three brilliant matter-of-fact chapters he begins to be stripped down to the inner core of his being. Thus begins the process by which, in Solzhenitsyn's moral order, the most perceptive prisoners have learned to be free...
Another major protagonist is Lev Rubin, the philologist who develops the voiceprinter. Though a prisoner, he is still a convinced Communist. With sympathy and remarkable subtlety, Solzhenitsyn makes clear the process of self-brainwashing by which such a man can sustain such a moral paradox?and can even convince himself that it is right and his duty to help trap Volodin and condemn him to the labor camps...
...second half of the 20th century, the gap be tween wish and denial has often been widened by the very institutions that should provide certainty. Science has bared the mysteries of subatomic particles, and in the process has almost turned into a new metaphysics groping for evidence of things unseen. As organized religion loses its appeal through stuffiness or sterility, people seeking faith increasingly turn to mystical religions, such as Zen and Zoroastrianism...
Mills' Robert J. Wert: The decision-making process has changed over the past ten years. A president now has to lead rather than dictate. He has to work for a consensus. You have to be something of a politician, and no academic can take too much of that. There also has been a shift in student tactics, which are now designed to evoke a heavyhanded response from the university. Activists demand something they know in advance that the uni versity cannot yield, then scream bloody murder when it is not delivered. More and more, it is the confrontation...